mandragon

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by mandragon 6y ago
Not seeing such a slippery slope. And again, isn't this specific to Utah only? May I ask if you live in Utah?
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by mandragon 6y ago
And yet, the intention is to deter usage of a product/vice that is a bane on America. Cut the supply is effective at reducing consumption. Is this really 1A when we are talking about mental health of our children? It's fairly well
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by mandragon 6y ago
This seems more about blocking. Internet activity is already tracked.
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by mandragon 6y ago
Why would this affect other states? Isn't this legislation specific to Utah?
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by mandragon 6y ago
Sounds fine; it's their culture and prerogative. Probably a benefit to deter such consumption for as many youth and young adults as possible, given the negative impact on mental health.
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by mandragon 6y ago
Yes, been following Bunnie. Very impressive. Is anyone else making similar progress? I've followed along somewhat with the RISC-V movement, but not in sufficient detail. Any add'l resources in this area are appreciated.
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Ask HN: Security-first personal/mobile computing architecture?
1 points by mandragon 6y ago|2 comments
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by mandragon 6y ago
Had a number of 1066's back in the day. Pinnacle of Neve's design.
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by mandragon 6y ago
Stopped coding in 2018. Gave away my small fortune. Went homeless. My time has come. Aloha.
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by mandragon 6y ago
GCHQ used to challenge applicants to disassemble a motor vehicle, and reassemble it indoors. Perhaps this inspired Chris and Mitch's revenge prank on Kent (for Kent's phone spying / leaking stunt)?
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by mandragon 6y ago
Was the agent fired for writing something specifically, or simply for signing up for these networks?
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by mandragon 6y ago
Yes, your hypothesis is a better fit, and makes fewer assumptions. Perhaps the arrangements with Russia were made hurriedly while Snowden was hiding in HK, days prior to departing, as some reports suggest. However, Snowden had been stealing
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by mandragon 6y ago
Just pointing out that snowden's passport was cancelled on 20130622 and that he flew out of hk on 20130623. It's not an unreasonable speculation that he planned to wind up in Russia, putting on a convincing show in the process.
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by mandragon 6y ago
connected to A-list circles many celebs have personal protection details. how such protection details behave likely varies widely.. as for your concerns, pay close attention to your cybersecurity posture before engaging with people who wi
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by mandragon 6y ago
I can only speculate, but it was during the course of a reference check for someone connected to this circle. So, likely this was done to look into me, demonstrate power over me, and let me know they are "watching".
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by mandragon 6y ago
I was once hacked, stalked and targeted by friends of a celebrity who I had just met. I tried pursuing help about it and was threatened with murder. Then, after promising to report the murder threat, I was told by another person in that soc
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by mandragon 6y ago
With Larry Fink and hedgies involved, Bitcoin only needs, at most, a couple hundred billion to prop up prices well beyond $20k-$25k. Small market, which Fink noted. $100k would not be an entirely unexpected milestone sooner rather than late
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by mandragon 6y ago
What happens when you combine extensive knowledge of a user's most intimate secrets and most painful memories with the ability to algorithmically choose targeted content at will, with the intention to amorally experiment on said user?
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by mandragon 6y ago
Snarky tone of your response put aside: Whether the comment was incorrect in this case related to the paper in question doesn't invalidate the strategy, generally. Might be easier to pass scientific misinfo/disinfo if it were more
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by mandragon 6y ago
Pretty sure it was just a general comment on the topic of art of war, and not specific to the linked paper.
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by mandragon 6y ago
Yes to all. Mainly, American culture could use a strong dose of reality check. This appears to be the case in terms of publicly stating that we are retooling global intelligence missions from Cold War (t-40yrs) and War on Terror (t-20yrs),
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by mandragon 6y ago
I speculated that they may seek to use eugenics, nootropics or other methods to enhance the performance of their (vast) pool of scientists and engineers. This would offer a strategic advantage in accelerating such development, but would ass
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by mandragon 6y ago
If that's the case here, then it isn't indicative of any secret progress.
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by mandragon 6y ago
Art of War: Appear weak when you are strong. IME, it's plausible that nation/state strat pertinent to QC advances is to hide the true extent of cutting edge breakthroughs. This makes sense considering what's at stake. China i
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by mandragon 6y ago
Is it reasonable to assume that many wallets won't get migrated and could eventually be seized by whoever (eventually) possesses a sufficiently strong QC? If Larry Fink is right, then that could be untold billions, assuming for sake of
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by mandragon 6y ago
This includes seamlessly migrating wallet keys to a quantum resistant scheme without end user intervention? Seems that users would need to do a kind of transaction using existing keys to new wallet/key pair?
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by mandragon 6y ago
ECC can be theoretically broken with Shor's algorithm: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#...
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by mandragon 6y ago
A QC to implement shor's algo at a practical level would need millions of non-ec'ed qubits. At least publicly, we are likely quite far from any such advance.
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by mandragon 6y ago
What's the risk for bitcoin pertinent to entrenched pre-quantum encryption? Are the wallet/private key pairs based on such cryptography? What's the technical feasibility of migrating BTC's pow scheme to quantum-resistant
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by mandragon 6y ago
Phoenix does offer a pleasant, streamlined full stack experience, and it does seem kludgey to bake together PHP and Phoenix without good reason. If I didn't have a team to deal with a large Elixir codebase (a common issue), I'd gl

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